Benefits
Salary (2023-2024):
- PGY-1 $70,546
- PGY-2 $74,622
- PGY-3 $77.196
Other Perks:
- Educational funds: $500 per academic year for question banks, technology, textbooks, etc.
- Paid memberships in ACEP (with EM:RAP access), EMRA, SAEM, AAEM, AAMS (Association of Air Medical Services), AMPA (Air Medical Physician Association)
- Subscriptions to Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, and Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Paid certifications for ACLS, ATLS, PALS, Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
- 3 sets of monogrammed FIGS scrubs
- Monogrammed white coat
Conferences and Travel:
- SAEM Annual Meeting: attendance (and travel/hotel expenses) for the EM1 year and in later years if a paper is accepted for presentation
- 40-hour Medical Legal Seminar: during the EM2 year, all expenses paid
- ACEP Annual Scientific Assembly: attendance (and travel/hotel expenses) for the EM3 year
- AMA, NMA/SNMA, AAEMS, or other specialty society annual meetings: attendance (and travel/hotel expenses) if paper presented, serving as an officer or committee member, or serving as residency representative
- Opportunities for payment and first/business class travel with the International Medical Flight Program (AXA)
- Moonlighting opportunities as PGY-2 and PGY-3
Transportation:
- Discounted guaranteed parking on campus ($25/month at UCMC, free at NUH)
- Reimbursement on gas for off-site rotations (62.5 cents/mile until gas prices fall below $4.75/gallon)
- Bicycle commuter benefits
Insurance, health, and other benefits:
- Health insurance (for resident and family members) through UChicago Health Plan HMOs or BCBS PPOs
- Annual discounts on health insurance for completing health screening and earning “Wellness points”
- Discounted rates at UChicago gym facilities
- Dental and vision insurance (for resident and family members)
- Confidential counseling, medical, and psychological support services via the Employee Assistance Program and Physician’s Assistance Committee
- Life insurance ($50,000 coverage at no cost)
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage (at no cost)
- FSAs, HSAs (optional)
- Tuition remission for family members at UChicago schools
- 403(b) retirement account (optional)
Leave:
- Two 2-week blocks of vacation annually
- 6-weeks of paid (100%) medical/parental/caregiver leave
- FMLA, Bereavement, and Civic leave